The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication evolved from the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication and succeeds what was formerly known as the Center for Global Communication Studies.

Increasingly, religious images, narrations and symbols are used by advertising to accomplish its commercial task, especially in Italy. This presentation examines how such religious motifs are depicted in Italian magazine advertising, leading to the proposal of a typology.

CGCS director Monroe Price and Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, will discuss Price’s revealing new memoir exploring assimilation, Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of Viennese Dreams and American Opportunities. For more details please visit barnesandnoble.com.